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whats the best way to fall into a blissful sleep?

Getting the room temperature down by opening a window for 5-10 minutes before going to bed helps me a lot. The difference between the room and the blanket makes it really snuggly and easy to fall asleep. Also, not just sitting around all day but doing sport helps a lot as well.

>>586 1) Lie down in a comfy position 2) Close your eyes, and roll your eyes up (it is natural when you are sleeping) 3) Clear your mind, concentrate on your breath 4) On inhale mentally speak "inhale" (same on exhale) 5) After few repeats stop mentally speaking 6) Fall asleep (if you can't repeat every step again) sorry for my terrible English

Get physically tired. Do some exercise. Go for a really long late night walk.

>>587 this to be honest, i love it cool. in fact over the past three weeks my window has been open all the time in all weather, sleeping in this is amazing especially after being sweaty and hot when biking

I've heard a buskwheat husk pillow and an air ioniser.

At what point does being unable to sleep become an illness? I honestly can't remember the last time I fell asleep before midnight. Every time something "big" awaited me the next day like an exam or my first day at a place of work I'd usually not sleep at all, rolling around in my bed for hours. Having to perform the next day with zero sleep is something between pain and uncomfortableness, it's terrible.

>>586 Work out take melatonin lay down think about nothing relax all the muscles in your face

>>586 IME, going to sleep near 8pm helps a lot. It seems it alleviates the guilt of having done nothing productive, which is helpful on my own life patterns.

Benzodiazepines. For all my life I had trouble falling asleep on the regular day-to-day day. There was a few month period in my teens when I had some very mild and slow benzos prescribed. I would fall asleep way easier, on long bus rides, on trains, basically anywhere. I loved it.

I have serious trouble sleeping. I can spend hours falling asleep and even then would wake up at 5AM not able to go back to sleep. Nothing really works for me except weed but I didn't try any proper medication. Getting really tired helps falling asleep but then I still wake up after 3-5h of sleep. I was traveling recently with friends and no amount of energy expenditure or alcohol would help, after two weeks of sleeping 3-4h a night I was a living zombie, but still unable to get a good night rest.

Carnal exertion warm your body, hindering sleep. Sleep cool your body. Cold bathe your body. Nevertheless carnal exertion help sleep if carnal exertion was through earlier the day. My experience lying: memory recall event of all day, all detail, make dream without mind gap. Dream memory make easy because full mind through carnal rest. When thought makes senseless, tenacity for answer "this thought why?", "this thought meaning?". (first time complex, first good time slow, soon faster.. now wake-thought fast) On day/3 schedule (as "9 to 5 workday"), make to wake so sleep will be soon at end of schedule, so leisure early, but immediately want do something, not waste hour. If wake at soon start of schedule, hurriness unpleasant, and weary at half-day moment, immediately want not do something, waste hour, eat, sleep. My experience only.

>>2135 And a few drops of lavender oil on your pillow. And chamomile tea, even though it tastes like ass.

>>2148 The problem with benzos is that you still feel drowsy for half of the next day

Try listening to a couple chapters of an audiobook, or a podcast/ASMR track that's particularly narrative-based. I've found that strong mental imagery transitions very smoothly into dreams. The only real problem is finding earbuds that are comfortable to sleep in (which, frankly, I haven't had much luck with). Of course, just having nice daydreams while lying in bed has the same effect, but then you run a much higher risk of getting stuck on thoughts that upset you, which can hinder sleep.

>>2150 If you can't go to sleep except when using weed I think you have another issue all together that's causing you to be unable to sleep.....

>>2257 My headphone is one of those that the earpieces can rotate to carry easier. So I put it under my pillow and raise the volume a bit so that the sound passes through the pillow. If you sleep on your side it can be comfortable, but you will lose the binaural functionality.

Make sure you don't have too much oxygen in your system. Hold your breath as long as you can. Then breathe slowly, and let your whole body slow down and relax. Your brain will follow. And it will play some nice nonsensical imagery (or just Eigengrau) until you fall asleep.

>>2271 I do the exact same, I like to go with chill fantasy/sci-fi books, as of late I've been listening to 'Orphans of the sky'. What is frustrating tho is finding the last bit I do remember hearing before going comatose

>>1003 this. if I sat on ass all day, i never sleep well. Going to the gym helps a lot.

take a warm bath, try to remember some nice memories from your childhood, don't close your eyes, just keep thinking about these mwmories until you're tired then you will automatically sleep, and may God bless it.

>>2257 There does exist special earphones made to sleep in. Basically a headband with speakers in it.

Get a system with some bass response, maybe some 15"+ speakers and put on rainymood.

>>586 I have problem to sleep too. When i cant sleep i hug my pillow while thinking in my waifu.

>>586 Have you tried Benadryl? I don't mean for recreation, that's just stupid, but I mean for it's intended purpose of sleeping. It can get you to sleep, but it makes you feel like hell when you wake up.

>>3708 Also do NOT use it regularly to go to sleep, because you will develop a tolerance with it that will nullify its effects. If you need long term support for sleep and are willing to use medicines, you should talk with your doctor.

My #1 tip would be to keep the room cool and don't lay down until you are ready to sleep. I like to put 1 soothing song on as I lay down and then sleep after it finishes.

>>586 Do you usually sleep during the day or at night? I'm kind of surprised no one else has asked this. I personally sleep better during the daytime hours myself. Maybe, if you have trouble sleeping at night. Take some naps or position your sleep schedule for whatever part of the day you care about the least. I don't even try to force myself to go to sleep at all anymore, well unless I have something specifically going on the following day that is off from where I'm currently at with my sleeping schedule.

>>586 Reposting my repost >>3422 Slowing down your exhaling (so that it's slower than your inhaling) and breathing from your stomach (diaphragm) is one of the ways to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which signals your body to rest and reduces stress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system https://www.clinicaladvisor.com/home/the-waiting-room/calming-cognitive-hyperarousal-to-treat-insomnia/ https://www.dovepress.com/hyperarousal-and-sleep-reactivity-in-insomnia-current-insights-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NSS Combined with meditation, it's one of the best methods to treat anxiety, insomnia and PTSD. I recently researched all of this because of sleeping issues due to stress/hyperarousal. One of the immediate effects of this type of breathing is that it quickly slows my heart rate way down, usually followed by a certain drowsy feeling. Heart rate isn't the only indicator, but after doing this for 10-30 minutes it really does reduce stress and help with sleep. Try it, along with different exhale/inhale speeds.

>>3718 And as an anecdote, this breathing is the main thing which started helping me when I was in complete "oh god what the fuarrrk" mode, after almost no sleep over several months. My insomnia stated suddenly, and it seems the cause was some acute stress which I was completely unconscious of - absolutely no surface indicators in the beginning like anxiety, etc. Since I couldn't tell what the cause was, I was frantically researching and asking physicians about all kinds of physical causes, while slowly losing my soykaf week by week, and making the stress-insomnia feedback loop worse. I stumbled upon this by complete dumb luck and I couldn't believe how braindead simple it was to do, and that my cause was psychological and unconscious. Since it was so seemingly inexplicable and unprecedentedly sudden, I was sure it had to be something physiological. And I was nearly about to start taking some heavy-ass sleeping pills for the first time in my life too. If the story sounds kind of silly, it was 100x as absurd from my perspective as I'd never dealt with insomnia or soykaf like this and I had to live through it. So besides good sleep hygiene (like going to bed at the same time each night, and controlling light/noise exposure), I think everyone can benefit from taking time to breathe and/or meditate in the evening and before sleep.

>>586 with a person you truly love in your arms

My way is to always fall asleep to something, never try to fall asleep on purpose. For example, watching a let's play of some calm game with a calm streamer puts me to sleep really well. The worst thing for me is to just lie in bed and consciously try to fall asleep. It almost never works.

>>1003 Additional thing: Don't do this directly before sleep, but leave some time in between instead. Exercise wakes you up for the moment.

>>617 This is good advice. Also, focusing on laying perfectly still helps me a lot.

Jerk off (no porn) before bed. Use your imagination, never anything visual. Wear comfy clothes, comfy blanket and make sure the room smells nice. Once your done fapping to your fantasies you'll close your eyes and slowly drift off to sleep easy. Downside is no more wet dreams.

pentobarbitol... no but fr try sonata. it has a short elimination halflife and will put you to bed vvery easily

What I do is lay perfectly still. I try to lay on my back and cross my arms but sometimes I don't. I focus on not moving a single muscle, even if I have urges to turn over. I also pretend my problems don't exist, because I will address them in the morning, not tonight.

>>586 If you need sleeping pills, try temazepam and/or low-dose (7.5mg) Mirtazapine.

Refrain from spending time in bed (and your whole bedroom if you can) while not trying to sleep. Keep your bed exclusively for sleeping so your brain gets the message whenever you get in bed.

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>>586 no "best" way, first of all because the question is too vague. a way that i prefer is to focus on slooowly breathing with only the nose (if you really can't breath through the nose for some reason just breathe with mouth or if you need to breathe with mouth aswell then do it aswell blah blah blah) and through the diaghram and not the nose, focusing on life energy and for dreams you can do one task that gives you a lot of mental activity and imagery before going to sleep. (your dreams will likely be related to the last "thought" or most recent "thing" your brain has """in mind""")

>>6444 mirtazapine causes insatiable hunger for me, I'd eat until I throw up and then eat again

The main thing is to turn off the thinking part of your brain. You have to block any thinking. Then you will fall asleep. Sometimes a cold compress on your forehead can help.

>>7436 I don't get this as thinking is and always has been how I fall asleep. I create a narrative in my head and it slowly morphs into a dream as thoughts run wild. Im a bit of an insomniac why but its largely for reasons outside this.

>>7437 I guess different things work for different people. If I really need to get to sleep, I get comfortable, then I imagine that I'm floating in a pitch black silent void, with nothing to see or stimulate any thinking. This part is weird, but I move my consciousness out of the front part of my brain where all the thinking happens to the back of my brain. Works every time.

>>7445 Understansable, if you are woken up during this process do you find your brain eventually was wandering or thinking still but just not actively? Someone the other day when I told them how I fall asleep said that if they did that they might enter a kind of negative or intrusive thought train and be unable to fall asleep, which does happen to me occasionally. Again not the primary reason for me losing sleep but it will happen. But i get so much joy and peace kind of out of this process where the narrative in my head gets slowly taken over by my brain and becomes a storyline i get to briefly observe and sort of "be told" before I fall asleep. But maybe if I did as you it would still happen and thats what im sort of curious about, like when you leave that empty space do you still occasionally notice in the inbetween between sleep and wakefulness that your brain is kind of creating a narrative that turns into a dream? Itd be hard for me to fall asleep without that.

>>7448 As far as I can tell it just leads to a normal sleep. Might or might not dream, wake up feeling refreshed, etc.

The best way and most blissful is when you are hugging a grill. Other than that: -Accomplish your goals during the day (This also means you have to set realistic goals the day before) -Have an intensive workout -Eat healthy and enough (not too little, not too much, calculate your calories) -Have a hot shower -Make sure your room is clean, has fresh air, dark and quiet (some people can't do this because neighbours or other people in the house can't stop being noisy, i know that feel bro, you have to move if you ever want to get some real good sleep) -Make sure your bed and the sheets and pillows are clean and fresh -Meditate -Look forward to the next day (if you are afraid of the next day, it makes falling asleep a chore) Some of these tips will help instantly, others will only get effective if done every day for a period of time.